![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Maddon’s Next Deal, First Base, And Naughty Aybar](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/749110612055_Rays_at_Orioles.jpg)
Off-Season (click image for random Wikipedia page) According to Marc Topkin, Joe Maddon’s contract talks are “progressing.” Maddon is in the final year of a contract that will pay him approximately $1.3 million in 2012. And like the Rays key players, Maddon is due for a significant raise. We have [...]
Willy Aybar Will Sit In Jail For 3 Months Awaiting Trial
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Willy Being Willy, Dan Johnson, And The Cubs Managerial Opening](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/1.jpg)
The One Where We Discuss Willy Being Willy, Dan Johnson, And The Cubs Managerial Opening
According to KIRO TV in Seattle, former Rays utility man Willy Aybar was arrested on Sunday for assaulting his wife, who was discovered bleeding from a bite mark on her face… The King County Sheriff’s Office said detectives arrested Aybar at about 2 a.m. at the SeaTac Hilton. According to [...]
Yesterday Willy Aybar signed with the Edmonton Capitals of the Independent North American League. We had been wondering why no Major League team would even give Aybar a minor league deal. Turns out it may have been because Aybar was sentenced to three months in prison in the Dominican Republic [...]
Tim Beckham The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. THE GOOD: James Shields. “Big Blast” Shields pitched 3 innings. That is good because apparently he wasn’t in the game long enough to [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss The End Of The Navi-Era And Free Agency For Howell And Aybar](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1-150x150.jpg)
More donuts for the rest of the Rays! We have known for a while that Dioner Navarro would not be back in 2011. But yesterday the door hit him in the ass. There is probably a repair man fixing the door as you read this. Yesterday was the deadline to [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Options, Crawford To The Giants And Maddon’s Role In Brewers’ New Manager](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/hangover-150x150.jpg)
Here is a lasting image from the 2010 baseball season (via Big League Stew)… THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… Yesterday we reported that the Rays had declined the options on Dan Wheeler and Willy Aybar and what that meant for each player and the Rays. Mark Topkin has the reaction from [...]
In a couple of moves that we have been speculating about, the Rays today announced that they have declined the 2011 options on Dan Wheeler and Willy Aybar. And they have added Elliot Johnson to the 40-man roster. Wheeler’s option would have paid him $4 million in 2011. Instead the [...]
Yesterday, we thought it was a bit strange that Rocco Baldelli was on the ALDS roster and Willy Aybar was not. Well, it turns out, Joe Maddon may have just wanted Rocco for game 1 to face the lefty Cliff Lee. Marc Topkin is reporting that the Rays today removed [...]
